The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
Notes and Opinions.

shire legislature was an expensive lux
ury. 1t cost the state S236,000.
IT has been noticed that crows are
migrating in large numbers, which in
dicates, in the opinion of the Smith
sonian scientists, an early and severe
winter.
ANARCHIsM is rebuked by the cleo
ton of Judge Gary, who presided at
the anarchist trials at Chicago, to the
superior court of Cook county, ILL.,, by
an overwhelming majority.
If the republicans will fight their bat
ties in New York as we fight them in
Ohio we shall year from to-day elect
republican ent.--Cincinna6 Com
nercial Gazette, November 9th.
Mr.. j. E. HARRIS has severed his
editorial connection with the Burling-
ton Clipper, and for the present the
paper will be conducted editorially by
the executive committee of the as
ISOLATION.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has dropped
the cyclopedia and is now searching his
biographical dictionaries to find out
who Governor Foraker is, who invited
him to the Inequalities of Ohio last
October Concord Monitor.
THE Florida Times Union wants a
Union monument to Robert E. Lee at
the national capital. If the northern
lickspittles of southern eX-rebels in
crease as fast in the next five years as
in the last five the Florida paper may
have its wish gratified.
IT is suspected, with much reason,
that most of the Indian troubles in the
far West in these later times are pro-
voked by the white people. The recent
so-called Indian outbreaks in Colorado
and Arizona are attributed to the ag-
gressions of the whites.
THE Free Press announced last FRI
day that Ex-Governor Hiland Hall of
North Bennington is very seriously
ill.," In most well-regulated newspaper
offices in the state it is known that ex-
Governor Hiland Hall died at SPRING
field, Mass, December 18th, 1885.
Mr.. BLAINE is represented by
Paris dispatch as saying he is sure of a
denomination to the presidency next
year. The dispatch is probably based
on erroneous information. 1t is not
like Mr.. Blaine to go around talking
freely about political matters in this
fashion.-T'roy Times.
THE Boston Herald thinks the lost
cause speech of General Jackson in
Georgia els not matter to make
great fuss about" But the Herald
makes great fuss when republican
speakers and newspapers state the
facts concerning the suppression of
free ballot in the South.
THE statement of certain mugwump
journals and their sympathizers that
the battle in New York this year was
fought by the republicans "squarely
on the Blaine issue" is absolutely
false. 1t is an insidious attempt to
mslead the republican masses, but its
effect will be short-lived.
JOHANN MosT, the anarchist leader,
when he heard that the decision of the
supreme court was adverse to the
Chicago anarchists said he felt like
going into some wild waste or wilder
ness, where the face of man would
never be seen. This would be en-
tirely satisfactory to the rest of man
kind.
THE appearance of leprosy in Phila-
delphia may remind the public that the
disease is a permanent institution
in New Brunswick and Louisiana, and
has presented several cases at different
times in Minnesota and on the Pacific
slope. There is danger that in time all
of the old-world evils will be transported
hither and become commonplace.
THE eulogies which some of the
democratic leaders are now delivering
on Cleveland and his administration
are ludicrous. The newspapers of not
very old date show that some of those
who are most conspicuous in ascribing
the result of the election in New York
to Cleveland's policy have been bitter
in denunciation of that policy. Wash
ingtOn Special.
PATRICK FORD, in the Irish World,
claims the credit of having defeated the
united labor party He says the fall
ing off in the George vote is almost
entirely due to Mr. Georges relations
with DIR. McGlynn. The defeat is not
defeat of the land-tax doctrine, but
of the anti-Catholic spirit infused into
the campaign. Mr.. Ford intimates
that if this mistake is rectified Mr..
George may do better next time.
THE election of Cleveland would
have been impossible if there had been
an honest vote and count in the South
ern States, and the democratic majority
in the house consists exclusively of the
additional representatives gained by the
South under the fourteenth amend
ment; and having the power, that
: amendment is nullified, so that man
: who fought against the Union has from
two to ten votes for the one that is all
any Union soldier claims. - Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
THE Blaine-haters are already as
nrti hot ha alanIiAn in, Oh tn